linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 22/25] x86/asm: annotate indirect jumps

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Message-ID: <20201015203942.f3kwcohcwwa6lagd@treble>
Date:   Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:39:42 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 22/25] x86/asm: annotate indirect jumps

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:23:41AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> 
> > It would probably be good to keep LTO and non-LTO builds in sync about
> > which files are subjected to objtool checks. So either you should be
> > removing the OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD annotations for anything that
> > is linked into the main kernel (which would be a nice cleanup, if that
> > is possible), 
> 
> This, I've had to do that for a number of files already for the limited
> vmlinux.o passes we needed for noinstr validation.

Getting rid of OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD is indeed the end goal, though
I'm not sure how practical that will be for some of the weirder edge
case.

On a related note, I have some old crypto cleanups which need dusting
off.

-- 
Josh